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"content": "\u003cp>After nearly two months of applications and appeals, some Uber and Lyft drivers are getting unemployment insurance. But Lyft and Uber have not paid a cent into the state’s unemployment fund because the gig companies have continued to classify their drivers as contractors. That means California is going to pay the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft and Uber have claimed to have over 500,000 drivers in California. Depending on how long the pandemic lasts, covering the tab on their unemployment could cost the state hundreds of millions or even more than a billion dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few weeks, Uber and Lyft \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11812496/uber-and-lyft-arent-paying-for-drivers-unemployment-you-are-confirms-newsom\">drivers have been getting conflicting advice about whether to apply for pandemic unemployment assistance (PUA) for independent contractors, or unemployment insurance (UI) for employees.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PUA is funded by the federal government, while UI is a state program that employers pay into. Since there is no legal question over classification, getting PUA is less complicated, but UI offers almost certainly more money and potentially more long-term security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the monetary implications, there’s a looming legal question. In January, California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11773942/the-gig-is-up-california-lawmakers-pass-protections-for-gig-workers\">Assembly Bill 5\u003c/a> became law, which makes it harder for companies to classify workers as contractors and avoid paying for things like workers’ compensation or unemployment insurance. But even with AB 5, Lyft and Uber have continued to classify their workers as contractors and avoid paying into the state’s unemployment fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor advocates worry that if drivers opt for PUA, which is a more straightforward process than getting UI, it will lend credence to the argument Uber and Lyft are making that their workers are indeed contractors, not employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers are stuck in the middle of it all. It has been two months already with little to no work — and there’s no prospect of that changing anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Caught in the Middle\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Maia Wagle, a Los Angeles-based Lyft driver, has been trying to get unemployment insurance since early March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has filled out numerous online forms, sent in documents and called the agency multiple times a day. Late last week, she finally got a hold of someone at California’s Employment Development Department (EDD).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Maia Wagle, a Los Angeles-based Lyft driver\"]‘What am I going to do? I have to pay rent. I have to pay bills. I am just swimming here. So I am just going to take the bone that I am thrown. ‘[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagle said the woman on the phone, after looking at her application, said, “Oh well you should just do PUA, it will be faster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagle disagreed. “I said, ‘No, like, I really do qualify for unemployment insurance under AB 5,’ ” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagle went back and forth with the woman on the phone. “Then finally she says, ‘Listen, you want my advice, just apply for the PUA. It’s going to take time. What are you going to do? Are you going to get a lawyer, try to like fight your case for you?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are numerous reasons drivers like Wagle want state unemployment insurance instead of PUA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, it’s almost certainly more money. UI is awarded based on gross income, how much total income you bring in before expenses. PUA is calculated on net earnings, what you earn after all expenses are deducted. In both case, higher earnings equal more benefits. Drivers have tons of expenses — gas, wear and tear on their car, phone bills — meaning their gross is much higher than their net earnings, which means they would earn more money through UI instead of PUA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, there’s concern over how long the PUA funding will last compared to UI benefits. Both are set at 39 weeks right now, but it would be up to the federal government to extend PUA and up to California to extend UI. Drivers worry that if the pandemic continues, the federal government will be less likely than California to extend the assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a question of who pays for the benefits. UI is covered in part by employers, and PUA money is coming from the federal government. Wagel considers herself a Lyft employee, so she says it is only fair that her employer pays some of the cost instead of federal tax payers. Since Lyft and Uber haven’t paid into the unemployment fund yet, the state would cover the costs, but it would be known that the companies owe California that money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For these reasons, Wagel has been resisting the temptation of applying for PUA and fighting to get UI. But it’s been a hard fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagle desperately needs the money. She’s been without work for almost two months. And after all this time fighting to get UI, she’s worn down. The phone call with the woman at the EDD was the last straw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just caved,” Wagle said. “As soon as I got off the phone with her I was like, aw fuck it. I am just going to go apply for this PUA. What am I going to do? I have to pay rent. I have to pay bills. I am just swimming here. So I am just going to take the bone that I am thrown. It’s still not right. It’s not right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Persistence and Luck\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While Wagle finally settled for PUA, other drivers have actually gotten through and received UI. It has taken a lot of persistence, and what some drivers say feels like luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get UI, a driver has to apply, get told they qualify for zero dollars because their employer did not report earnings or contribute to the fund, then appeal that finding, and finally go through an audit where they have to prove to a representative of the EDD how much they earned and that they should be classified as an employee, not a contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous drivers have posted on social media about getting UI. KQED spoke with one driver in Daly City who had gone through this whole process and who doesn’t want to use his name for fear of Uber kicking him off the app. He says his trick was not waiting for any kind of confirmation from the EDD, but instead filling out the online form and then sending a package with all of his documentation by certified mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He sent that package a month ago and then he says he just waited and prayed. Then, last week, he got a call from an EDD auditor. She asked him a few questions, and then said he was approved. He was watching online as fellow drivers were filling out online forms, being put on hold for hours when they called and getting nowhere. He said it seemed like a miracle that his claim went through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The driver in Daly City says he is getting the max in state benefits: $450 a week. He is so happy to have finally gotten some income. He has a family of five to support. But he didn’t want to give up and settle for PUA instead of UI because he didn’t want federal taxpayers to contribute to his unemployment when Uber and Lyft weren’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the AB 5, we’re entitled to get the normal UI with the corporations of Uber-Lyft helping,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Conflicting Advice\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A number of drivers KQED spoke with complained about getting conflicting information from the EDD, either by phone or on the website, about what to apply for and how. The EDD did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carole Vigne is a senior staff attorney at Legal Aid at Work, a nonprofit that is helping drivers get UI. She says it is disappointing that a EDD representative would tell a driver to apply for PUA instead of UI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under California law,” she said, “misclassified independent contractors or gig workers all should be on unemployment insurance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vigne said while it is right for drivers to apply for UI, the state is losing money by covering Uber and Lyft’s bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eventually when this calms down,” Vigne said, “we anticipate that the state will go after these companies who haven’t paid into the fund, who haven’t been reporting earnings on behalf of workers so that the fund could be paid back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Years of Legal Battle\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When the pandemic hit, Uber and Lyft had already been battling for years to continue classifying their workers as contractors. The companies had used the arbitration clauses in their contracts to settle countless legal disputes with workers over classification individually and behind closed doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"ab5\" label=\"more on ab 5\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 2018, the California Supreme Court issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718822/tech-labor-and-newsom-search-for-common-ground-on-the-future-of-gig-workers\">a landmark ruling\u003c/a> that made it much harder for companies to classify their workers as contractors. The state Legislature codified that ruling into law with AB 5. The bill’s author, Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, has repeatedly said gig companies classifying workers as contractors is exactly the kind of labor arrangements the law was designed to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When AB 5 passed on Jan. 1, many drivers thought they would finally become employees and get protections like workers compensation, guaranteed minimum wage and unemployment insurance. But instead, Uber, Lyft and other gig companies continued doing business as usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, as soon as AB 5 garnered enough votes to pass, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/retail/story/2019-09-13/instacart-not-uber-is-first-target-in-san-diego-gig-economy-lawsuit\">the city attorney in San Diego filed a lawsuit against Instacart\u003c/a>, but that case is still snarled in the legal system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, has been far more reticent. He has not publicly stated intent to pursue the gig companies on AB 5, and there has been no indication from Newsom’s office if he backs such a move. Newsom’s office did not provide a comment by the time of publication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When AB 5 became law, gig companies braced for enforcement. In early February, a source inside Lyft told KQED in a conversation on background information for another story that they were surprised the state had not already come after them over AB 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the gig companies have been collaborating to nullify the new law and continue classifying their workers as contractors. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Uber-Lyft-DoorDash-campaign-for-ballot-15090479.php\">Several companies, including Uber, Lyft and DoorDash, have poured $110 million\u003c/a> into a ballot initiative that would exempt them from AB 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was where everything stood in late February. Then the pandemic hit and brought on the scenario that labor advocates have been warning about for years: Business has plummeted. The hundreds of thousands of Uber and Lyft drivers in the state now have extremely limited or no work, and there’s no money for them in the state unemployment fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>An Appealing Case\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Every Lyft and Uber driver I have interviewed since January has asked me the same thing: If AB 5 is law, then why I am not an employee? And then the follow-up question is: Why hasn’t California started going after gig companies to sort this all out?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to David Levine, a professor of law at UC Hastings, if you set aside issues about politics and power, there are two big legal reasons why the state may have been hesitant to go after Uber and Lyft. The first has to do with precedent and the second is legal resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levine says there is a danger in the state attorney general or a local district attorney moving too fast and blowing the case. “If you are going to go up against companies this large, you have to do it the right way,” Levine said. “You don’t want a bad precedent because the litigation wasn’t handled correctly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That gets to the second point: power. Levine said these companies are so large that they could intimidate anyone who is trying to take them to court. Uber and Lyft have billions of dollars in cash reserves to pay for legal fees. The companies could “unleash their assault troops of lawyers” and bury a state or local agency in paper, Levine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that should not be a reason to hold back, Levine said. “The state’s AG has resources to do this,” he said, adding that government entities are often underfunded when it comes to battles with large corporations. “There’s nothing different here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the pandemic could make organizing a big case difficult, Levine said the fact that California is directly paying unemployment for Uber and Lyft is incentivizing the state to sort this out. It also, he said, gives the state “a very appealing way” to frame the case: Why is California shelling out money to pay for drivers who are out of work, while Lyft and Uber haven’t paid a dime into the unemployment fund?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the state doesn’t go after Uber and Lyft, it could be on the hook for a lot of money — money it doesn’t have, as California has already started borrowing money from the federal government to pay unemployment. It is approved to draw from the federal government as much as $10 billion by the end of July.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It’s not right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Persistence and Luck\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While Wagle finally settled for PUA, other drivers have actually gotten through and received UI. It has taken a lot of persistence, and what some drivers say feels like luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get UI, a driver has to apply, get told they qualify for zero dollars because their employer did not report earnings or contribute to the fund, then appeal that finding, and finally go through an audit where they have to prove to a representative of the EDD how much they earned and that they should be classified as an employee, not a contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous drivers have posted on social media about getting UI. KQED spoke with one driver in Daly City who had gone through this whole process and who doesn’t want to use his name for fear of Uber kicking him off the app. He says his trick was not waiting for any kind of confirmation from the EDD, but instead filling out the online form and then sending a package with all of his documentation by certified mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He sent that package a month ago and then he says he just waited and prayed. Then, last week, he got a call from an EDD auditor. She asked him a few questions, and then said he was approved. He was watching online as fellow drivers were filling out online forms, being put on hold for hours when they called and getting nowhere. He said it seemed like a miracle that his claim went through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The driver in Daly City says he is getting the max in state benefits: $450 a week. He is so happy to have finally gotten some income. He has a family of five to support. 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It had been over a month since Dowd’s death. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took the CDC several weeks to provide the results, and those results were released publicly the same day they were received by the Medical Examiner-Coroner” on April 21, Jorden wrote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dowd's autopsy officially listed COVID-19 as her cause of death on April 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Did the County Alert Others About 3 Suspicious Deaths?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Public Health officials did not disseminate information about the case to others until the test confirmed COVID-19 on April 21 – more than two months after Dowd’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The day the results were received from the CDC, they were immediately shared with the state of California Department of Public Health and other partners, and were shared publicly,” an agency spokesperson wrote in a May 1 email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County announced the news that COVID-19 was confirmed in the tissue samples belonging to three people who died at home: Dowd, and two men who died on Feb. 17 and March 6, respectively. None of them had traveled beforehand, which indicated they caught the virus through community spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three of the COVID-19 deaths Santa Clara County announced in April died in their homes well before March 16, when six Bay Area counties and the city of Berkeley issued shelter-in-place orders to combat community spread of the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had been wondering, ‘How will we detect community transmission if we're not testing people who haven't traveled?’ ” Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody said at a press conference announcing the test results. “And I think this answers the question, in that, ‘We didn't detect community spread.’ ” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue.jpg\" alt=\"An examination table in the Santa Clara County morgue at the medical examiner's office.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816183\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An examination table in the Santa Clara County morgue at the Medical Examiner's Office. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there were strong suspicions in the Medical Examiner’s Office that COVID-19 was causing deaths in the community long before those test results were received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A March 6 memo obtained by KQED suggests that at least one of the medical examiners in Santa Clara County suspected he had been exposed to multiple decedents with COVID-19 as early as mid-February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Joseph O’Hara wrote to a judge to ask that he be excused from testifying in court. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the last 2 weeks I have performed examinations on 4 individuals suspected of infection with the COVID-19 virus,” O’Hara wrote, “including one individual who died after being exposed to the virus on the Princess Cruise Line ship.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Hara also stated he was “experiencing symptoms of cough and headache” and couldn’t guarantee he had not been exposed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county has not confirmed whether O’Hara was ever quarantined, and attempts to reach him directly were unsuccessful. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about O’Hara’s memo, Jorden responded that she could not provide personal health information about employees, but that staff are following strict guidelines on protecting themselves by using personal protective equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an earlier interview, Jorden said none of her staff had been “confirmed” to have COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area forensic pathologist Dr. Judy Melinek said Santa Clara County should have sounded an alarm as soon as pathologists suspected COVID-19 caused Dowd’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we're not capable of recognizing a potentially transmissible infectious disease when it comes to our door, then we are not doing our job guarding the public health,” Melinek said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melinek believes the region may have lost crucial time to isolate people with the virus and implement broad shelter-in-place orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day that you don't do contact tracing is a day lost where people who are asymptomatic spreaders or pre-symptomatic spreaders are sharing that virus with other people,” Melinek said. “So every day of delay is potential lives lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11815978 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/GettyImages-1218635194-1-1020x735.jpg']Before the COVID-19 pandemic, medical examiners and coroners could send samples freely to a special division of the CDC. Despite repeated inquiries, the CDC has not confirmed whether testing by that division was available in early February when Dowd died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Melinek was able to rule out COVID-19 in a separate case through CDC testing a couple weeks before Dowd’s death. Melinek examined a decedent in late January who had recently traveled to China and whom she suspected had COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melinek said she contacted CDC’s Infectious Disease Pathology Branch, and that agency staff attended the autopsy and took samples for testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got an immediate response from them and results within a week or two,” Melinek said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Sally Aiken, president of the National Association of Medical Examiners, said forensic pathologists typically can freely submit samples to the special CDC lab for testing that’s not available in other facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They do immuno-testing for a number of pathogens and unusual pathogens and they provide advice,” Aiken said. “That is available to forensic pathologists, medical examiners and coroners during normal times. And as far as COVID-19 testing, I'm not sure what their limitations were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was just a major breakdown in obvious, necessary communications,” Santa Clara County Supervisor David Cortese said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS41440_011_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3397-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Clara County Supervisor David Cortese, pictured in February.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816217\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS41440_011_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3397-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS41440_011_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3397-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS41440_011_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3397-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS41440_011_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3397-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Supervisor David Cortese, pictured in February. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cortese recently criticized the Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office for not telling the board about a 20% increase in March fatalities, compared to the year before. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just seems to me if I'm running that shop and I see those numbers are trending up, that I start collaborating more closely with public health,” Cortese said. “I'd probably go to the Board of Supervisors and the county executive and say, ‘Hey, these numbers are trending up. How can we be helpful and collaborative and useful in this process?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the deaths were still under investigation and were not yet included in official counts. But, Cortese said, during a pandemic even provisional death data is critical to relay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's important that what you can say, you know,” Cortese said. “But it's also important to say what you don't know, and what is sort of pending, unverified information out there to give people a better handle on what's really going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Scott Morrow, San Mateo County health officer\"]'I told my colleagues in mid-January that it was likely spreading under our noses ... Without testing we were flying blind, and we continue to fly pretty blind.'[/pullquote]Melinek believes, if nothing else, that Santa Clara County had a duty to alert forensic pathologists in other offices about these early suspected cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As front-line workers in the death industry, whether we're forensic pathologists or people who work in mortuaries, we have not just a professional responsibility, but also an ethical responsibility to notify each other of potentially transmissible infectious diseases,” Melinek said. “Not only because it impacts us when we're doing our work, but more importantly, because it impacts the public at large.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorden has not responded to questions about why she did not immediately flag Dowd’s and other early cases publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aiken said pathologists can share that kind of information via a list-serve maintained by professional organizations for medical examiners. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, she said, “Most of us would share that – if not all of us – with public health officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Aiken said the awareness of COVID-19 was just beginning in early February. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They probably did really well to find these cases and get them to the Centers for Disease Control for testing, actually,” Aiken said. “I think they were pretty proactive doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Narrow Testing Skewed COVID-19 Death Data Statewide\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Dr. Scott Morrow, the health officer for neighboring San Mateo County, wrote in an email last week that he wasn’t surprised when he learned of Dowd’s death in news reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told my colleagues in mid-January that it was likely spreading under our noses,” Morrow wrote. “Without testing we were flying blind, and we continue to fly pretty blind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morrow called the lack of adequate COVID-19 testing “one of the fundamental missteps our country took and continues to take.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of adequate testing is no fault of Santa Clara County – and was still a factor at the end of March for medical examiners and coroners for some of California's most populous counties. Alameda, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties were only testing decedents who were known to be symptomatic before they died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not that we're having tests fall off the shelves,” Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner Dr. Jonathan Lucas said in a phone interview in late March. “We're doing a reasonable sort of screening, where, if somebody has symptoms, if they have had a fever in the days before they passed away, we're erring on the side of getting that test.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas feared that COVID-19 infections may not be detected in all cases where the disease was a contributing factor in someone’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's plausible right now, given the shortage of tests, that if somebody died and they didn't have any symptoms whatsoever – nobody brings it up – but maybe they were simply asymptomatic and had the virus, we might not test them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Coronavirus Coverage' tag='coronavirus']The day Santa Clara County announced the news of Dowd’s death, Gov. Gavin Newsom said he had asked other counties to review deaths dating back to December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I imagine subsequent announcements that may be made by similar efforts all across the state of California,” Newsom said. The governor’s office deferred questions about when and to whom this directive was sent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s up to counties to submit any changes to the cause of death to the state Department of Public Health, which would recategorize deaths attributed to COVID-19 so they are counted in state totals and shared with the CDC and the National Center for Health Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of medical examiners and coroners contacted by KQED and NPR were not immediately aware of the governor’s directive, but a spokeswoman for the Orange County Sheriff Coroner’s office said protocols are being put in place to review deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Jorden, the Santa Clara County medical examiner, has continued to identify additional early COVID-19 deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to the county Board of Supervisors last month, Jorden stated her office had identified 29 people who died with flu-like symptoms and that subsequent tests had confirmed nine of the decedents had the virus, including Dowd. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, efforts to determine whether COVID-19 caused or contributed to the person’s death were ongoing and were not included in county death totals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorden’s office is continuing to review cases back to Dec 1, 2019, to identify any that warrant further testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://laist.com/projects/2020/coronavirus-tracker/california.html\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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It had been over a month since Dowd’s death. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took the CDC several weeks to provide the results, and those results were released publicly the same day they were received by the Medical Examiner-Coroner” on April 21, Jorden wrote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dowd's autopsy officially listed COVID-19 as her cause of death on April 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Did the County Alert Others About 3 Suspicious Deaths?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Public Health officials did not disseminate information about the case to others until the test confirmed COVID-19 on April 21 – more than two months after Dowd’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The day the results were received from the CDC, they were immediately shared with the state of California Department of Public Health and other partners, and were shared publicly,” an agency spokesperson wrote in a May 1 email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County announced the news that COVID-19 was confirmed in the tissue samples belonging to three people who died at home: Dowd, and two men who died on Feb. 17 and March 6, respectively. None of them had traveled beforehand, which indicated they caught the virus through community spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three of the COVID-19 deaths Santa Clara County announced in April died in their homes well before March 16, when six Bay Area counties and the city of Berkeley issued shelter-in-place orders to combat community spread of the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had been wondering, ‘How will we detect community transmission if we're not testing people who haven't traveled?’ ” Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody said at a press conference announcing the test results. “And I think this answers the question, in that, ‘We didn't detect community spread.’ ” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue.jpg\" alt=\"An examination table in the Santa Clara County morgue at the medical examiner's office.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11816183\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/SantaClaraCoMorgue-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An examination table in the Santa Clara County morgue at the Medical Examiner's Office. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there were strong suspicions in the Medical Examiner’s Office that COVID-19 was causing deaths in the community long before those test results were received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A March 6 memo obtained by KQED suggests that at least one of the medical examiners in Santa Clara County suspected he had been exposed to multiple decedents with COVID-19 as early as mid-February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Joseph O’Hara wrote to a judge to ask that he be excused from testifying in court. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the last 2 weeks I have performed examinations on 4 individuals suspected of infection with the COVID-19 virus,” O’Hara wrote, “including one individual who died after being exposed to the virus on the Princess Cruise Line ship.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Hara also stated he was “experiencing symptoms of cough and headache” and couldn’t guarantee he had not been exposed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county has not confirmed whether O’Hara was ever quarantined, and attempts to reach him directly were unsuccessful. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about O’Hara’s memo, Jorden responded that she could not provide personal health information about employees, but that staff are following strict guidelines on protecting themselves by using personal protective equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an earlier interview, Jorden said none of her staff had been “confirmed” to have COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area forensic pathologist Dr. Judy Melinek said Santa Clara County should have sounded an alarm as soon as pathologists suspected COVID-19 caused Dowd’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we're not capable of recognizing a potentially transmissible infectious disease when it comes to our door, then we are not doing our job guarding the public health,” Melinek said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melinek believes the region may have lost crucial time to isolate people with the virus and implement broad shelter-in-place orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day that you don't do contact tracing is a day lost where people who are asymptomatic spreaders or pre-symptomatic spreaders are sharing that virus with other people,” Melinek said. “So every day of delay is potential lives lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:30 p.m. Monday, May 4\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With less than two weeks to go in a six-week vote by Northern California fire victims on a multibillion-dollar settlement deal with PG&E, some are still waiting to receive ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I haven’t received anything, and my friend in Paradise has not received one either,\" said Camp Fire survivor Vada Bouffard, who lost her home in Paradise and now lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carolyn Acosta finds herself in the same situation. She got an email message from the court on April 3 informing her that she would be receiving a customized ballot in the mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here is it, May, and no ballot,\" said Acosta, who relocated to Nampa, Idaho, from the Butte County community of Magalia after her rented home was damaged in the Camp Fire. \"There may be thousands of others who haven't gotten it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voting began on April 1 for wildfire victims with claims against PG&E — a group comprised of about 70,000 people. For PG&E's bankruptcy plan to move forward, two-thirds of those who vote on the plan must must approve it. Voting ends on May 15 as the utility races to exit bankruptcy by June 30 so it can tap a state wildfire insurance fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Bouffard nor Acosta are represented by attorneys. They, and as many as 15,000 other PG&E fire survivors who don't have legal representation in the case, are relying on PG&E and legal services contractor Prime Clerk to receive the settlement and voting information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After KQED first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11815313/how-hospitals-prepared-for-the-covid-19-surge\">reported\u003c/a> on potential ballot delays last week, lawyer and Nuns Fire survivor Helen Sedwick started checking in with fellow fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says about 50 fire survivors have emailed or messaged her to say that they have not received voting materials by mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say something has gone terribly wrong in the ballot distribution process that cannot be ignored,\" Sedwick said. \"PG&E or the attorneys must reach out to claimants with this information. Claimants should not be expected to go looking for the materials.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is not limited to victims without lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pleasant Hill-based law firm Rains Lucia Stern, which represents about 50 fire victims, told the bankruptcy court in \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6881050/034039848159-Rep-3004060718.pdf\">an affidavit\u003c/a> filed April 30 that the coronavirus pandemic caused a weeks-long slowdown in the process of getting voting materials to clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Joseph Lucia wrote that Prime Clerk alerted his office in mid-April \"that COVID-19 had caused delays in mail arriving in a timely manner.\" In response, he said his firm electronically sent solicitation packages with ballots to clients starting on April 21. It wasn't until last week, Lucia wrote, that the hard-copy solicitation documents started to show up in the mail at the firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prime Clerk did not respond to KQED's request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for PG&E did not directly address questions about the delay, but said, \"We continue to work diligently to obtain approval for our plan of reorganization by the Bankruptcy Court as soon as possible, so victims will be paid fairly and quickly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The involvement of Wall Street interests poised to reap a windfall from the bankruptcy has left survivors like Acosta on edge. A group of mass tort lawyers has also been pushing for approval of the settlement, securing thousands of \"yes\" votes by text and other electronic methods. Voting online may end up being the only option, even for those wary of the integrity of the voting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why should I have to do that? They said they were going to mail it. How many others have not received theirs?\" Acosta asked, noting that some fire survivors cannot afford reliable internet and cellular service or do not have easy access because of where they live. \"You wonder who is actually overseeing the mailing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jared Ellias, a professor of bankruptcy law at UC Hastings, said the responsibility of ensuring claimants receive their solicitation packages rests with PG&E and Prime Clerk, the claims agent. But given the number of people making claims in the case, he said it's not surprising that there might be problems reaching them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a big, complicated, messy process and it was never going to be 100 percent perfect,\" Ellias said. \"And it's up to the bankruptcy judge to make sure that it's close enough so we can all feel confident that justice was done when it comes to the outcome of this voting process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside>\u003cstrong>PG&E Settlement Voting\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>In response to this story, PG&E recommends that any questions with respect to voting and voting materials be directed to Prime Clerk as follows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>By telephone at 844-339-4217 (domestic) or 929-333-8977 (international)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>By email to pgeinfo@primeclerk.com\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>By visiting the PG&E case website at https://restructuring.primeclerk.com/pge.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003ch3>Voting on a Plan That's 'Not Completed'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bouffard, the fire refugee now living in Tennessee, says that even if she had her ballot, it's still not completely clear what survivors are voting on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for the official committee that represents survivors in the case said last week that even as the vote takes place, they are in mediation with PG&E and other stakeholders over key terms of the deal, like when and how much the utility will pay into the survivors' trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why are we being asked to vote on something that's not completed? That just seems crazy,\" Bouffard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On paper, the settlement is worth $13.5 billion, with PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11805766/pge-victims-weigh-rare-stock-funded-trust-amid-market-turmoil\">paying half in cash and half as PG&E stock\u003c/a>. But with the COVID-19 pandemic roiling financial markets, the stock component may be worth less than what PG&E promised, say lawyers for the official committee of fire survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This case is not over,\" wrote committee attorney Robert Julian Wednesday in a brief to U.S. District Judge James Donato, who is charged with estimating the total amount of PG&E's liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='pge']In hopes of preventing \"current fire victims from bearing the financial risk of a future wildfire,\" Julian wrote, the committee is seeking guarantees that PG&E will not withhold the first round of payment to the victims' trust until after the coming fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early April, Julian told U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali that when the committee agreed to the settlement, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811339/judge-refuses-to-approve-fire-victims-letter-attacking-pge\">it believed PG&E would pay the cash portion by Aug. 29\u003c/a>, before the height of the 2020 fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E bankruptcy attorney Stephen Karotkin told Montali PG&E never offered a concrete commitment to pay the cash by that date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will make the initial funding to the Fire Victim Trust upon our emergence from Chapter 11,\" a PG&E spokesperson said this week. \"We are on track to have our plan confirmed by June 30, 2020, and are currently targeting our emergence from Chapter 11 on or before Aug. 29, 2020.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some fire survivors are laying blame not just at the feet of PG&E, but on the survivors' committee, which saw three fire victims resign in protest in late March and early April. Camp Fire survivor Kirk Trostle, who was the first to step down, called the settlement \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11808826/fire-survivor-resigns-in-protest-from-pge-bankruptcy-committee\">\"deeply flawed and very risky for all fire victims\"\u003c/a> in his resignation letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After those resignations, the committee started publicly pushing for the guarantees from PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The [committee] is finally waking up to how they were outlawyered by PG&E and Wall Street,\" Sedwick said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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They, and as many as 15,000 other PG&E fire survivors who don't have legal representation in the case, are relying on PG&E and legal services contractor Prime Clerk to receive the settlement and voting information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After KQED first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11815313/how-hospitals-prepared-for-the-covid-19-surge\">reported\u003c/a> on potential ballot delays last week, lawyer and Nuns Fire survivor Helen Sedwick started checking in with fellow fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says about 50 fire survivors have emailed or messaged her to say that they have not received voting materials by mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say something has gone terribly wrong in the ballot distribution process that cannot be ignored,\" Sedwick said. \"PG&E or the attorneys must reach out to claimants with this information. 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It wasn't until last week, Lucia wrote, that the hard-copy solicitation documents started to show up in the mail at the firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prime Clerk did not respond to KQED's request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for PG&E did not directly address questions about the delay, but said, \"We continue to work diligently to obtain approval for our plan of reorganization by the Bankruptcy Court as soon as possible, so victims will be paid fairly and quickly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The involvement of Wall Street interests poised to reap a windfall from the bankruptcy has left survivors like Acosta on edge. A group of mass tort lawyers has also been pushing for approval of the settlement, securing thousands of \"yes\" votes by text and other electronic methods. Voting online may end up being the only option, even for those wary of the integrity of the voting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why should I have to do that? They said they were going to mail it. 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The notice was dated March 19, two days after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806988/sheltering-in-place-what-you-need-to-know\">Bay Area counties began rolling out shelter-in-place orders\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was pretty shocked. It was a slap in the face, just being with a company for so long,” McMorris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also told her she had 30 days to move out. And she became afraid of having to look for a place, as fears of the coronavirus were ramping up. As California’s shelter-in-place order went into effect, McMorris was among millions of Californians who lost their jobs, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809833/stressed-about-paying-your-april-rent-check-here-first\">with many unable to pay rent\u003c/a>, as non-essential businesses were forced to close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the end of March, right when everyone realized this is serious,” she said. “All this stuff is happening. 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Kane also wants the 13,000 “yes” votes Watts’ clients have cast so far to be thrown out for those who don’t grant their consent to their attorney’s financial ties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kane represents Camp Fire victim Karen Gowins, who last month joined two other survivors in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11808826/fire-survivor-resigns-in-protest-from-pge-bankruptcy-committee\">resigning from the official survivors’ committee in the bankruptcy\u003c/a> so she could publicly oppose the plan. At the time, Gowins told KQED she was not allowed to voice her opposition as long as she remained on the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watts represents 16,000 clients out of an estimated 70,000 claimants, and maintains that all the votes should be counted. He told KQED he informed clients about the financial ties at in-person town hall meetings in Santa Rosa and Chico in December. 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